Scholarly Adventures

GENERAL The primary mission of this blog has always been the promotion of resources and guidance for Rifts Game Masters and Players,...

INTRODUCTION The idea of this series of posts was to provide both Players and GMs an overview of the class features, along with...

INTRODUCTION This is going to be another one of my omnibus posts; a holding site for several related articles. In the GM Field Guide #4:...

INTRODUCTION Every once in a while, topics of conversation come from the most unlikely source. I was reading a Discord thread and the...

INTRODUCTION The following is a combination of personal thoughts and summarized information from a variety of online sources. To be...

(A Challenge for GMs) INTRODUCTION Skill Checks and Skill Rolls are a very pertinent part of the Rifts RPG. I mean, it’s one of the...

INTRODUCTION The idea of balancing a game is not something limited to a TTRPG. We try to apply this concept to professional sports (e.g....

INTRODUCTION With the relatively dramatic implosion of the D&D community over the proposed changes to the Open Game License (OGL) at the...

GENERAL In my previous article, The Bazaar #40: Geography & Distances, we discussed geography-related issues more inclined for the GMs,...

A Macro-Level Discussion GENERAL There really are two factors to this discussion. At the macro-level, this is more inclined for the GMs...

GENERAL First off, it’s great to be back, and this isn’t your typical Rifts-centric post. I’m easing back into things. Four weeks on...

GENERAL There a great number of misconceptions to the Literacy skill and how to employ it, both during the character creation process and...

GENERAL This is very much a more “high-brow” aspect to the GM Sessions posts, in that it isn’t directly attributable to the crafting,...

INTRODUCTION General . There are a great many books supporting the Rifts RPG, which makes the barrier to entry, even just skimming the...

INTRODUCTION General. In a sort of follow-up to my post where I posit what I would look like as a Rifted character (hint, no great hero),...

General. Short of playing characters from the Coalition States, the CS is pretty much the quintessential antagonist for most Rifts...

GENERAL Presentation of the information herein is to give a very broad strokes background on the skeleton of what makes up a worldview,...

GENERAL In the previous post, I discussed some of the issues facing easily the most polarizing issue about the Coalition States (how they...

GENERAL To assume that a population is defined by one individual, or the loudest sub-set, fails to take into account the totality of the...

RIFTS – The Setting From the first pages of text in the original RIFTS: RPG, the creator, Kevin Siembieda, considered this as...